The Technology Vent and Rant Thread - Page 57

ilovejedd · 03-31-2021, 09:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Quoth

It's practically a mobile phone chip on a breakout board. That's why it's micro-USB.

RPi 4 uses USB-C for power now, iirc. I believe the RPi Zero's an older model though.

hobnail · 04-02-2021, 12:10 AM

When I ordered the Zero I had no idea how old it was. Looking at the picture it certainly looked like usb c. Likewise I assumed that the hdmi connector was the micro hdmi that's on the pi 4 but when it arrived I was annoyed to discover that it was mini hdmi. I didn't even know that there was a 3rd hdmi type.

For some reason I'm a bit mesmerized by these little computers. I shouldn't be given that my android phone is running linux, although it's buried away and not easily accessible.

The first unix workstation I used was a Sun, with a Motorola 68020. That cpu's physical size was at least as big as the Zero's board. And the Sun had something like 4 meg of ram. But it ran BSD unix just fine. With the generic/vanilla MIT X11.

Quoth · 04-02-2021, 08:49 AM

Android phones run Android which has a custom Linux Kernel. So less similar to Linux as a complete OS with a GUI than Linux is to Mac OS X.

I remember the Solaris printed manuals

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hobnail Running with scissors Posts: 1,039 Karma: 12135966 Join Date: Nov 2019 Device: none	When I ordered the Zero I had no idea how old it was. Looking at the picture it certainly looked like usb c. Likewise I assumed that the hdmi connector was the micro hdmi that's on the pi 4 but when it arrived I was annoyed to discover that it was mini hdmi. I didn't even know that there was a 3rd hdmi type. For some reason I'm a bit mesmerized by these little computers. I shouldn't be given that my android phone is running linux, although it's buried away and not easily accessible. The first unix workstation I used was a Sun, with a Motorola 68020. That cpu's physical size was at least as big as the Zero's board. And the Sun had something like 4 meg of ram. But it ran BSD unix just fine. With the generic/vanilla MIT X11.

04-02-2021, 08:49 AM	#843
Quoth the rook, bossing Never. Posts: 3,062 Karma: 23261816 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: Both Kinds: epub based makes and Kindle	Android phones run Android which has a custom Linux Kernel. So less similar to Linux as a complete OS with a GUI than Linux is to Mac OS X. I remember the Solaris printed manuals